Wes Streeting

What I'd describe as the business as usual disagreements between cabinet ministers and government departments, because often the interests of one department and another might be competing.

The prime minister's view was you as cabinet ministers need to resolve it and then sort of come to me with your finished work so I can tick it.

I'm sure every prime minister wishes government worked like that.

But as Obama said about being US president, and it's the same for the British prime minister, you've got to make all the 49%, 51% judgments, the finely balanced choices, the ones that aren't easy.

And too often that doesn't happen.

And so we end up with a country and a prime minister who all complain, rightly, government is too slow.

I don't think you can just put that down to civil servants and the machine.

Government has to be driven.

And as health secretary, every day I had to come in driving the system, pushing progress, holding the system to account, holding NHS providers to account, asking, why is it

that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is getting through their backlog at a rate of knots.

But, you know, why is Midden South Essex Trust not doing nearly as well?

You have to grip, you have to drive, you have to lead.

And we don't get that from the prime minister.

So I understand why there are some people, including Labour Party members, who don't see all of this up close and may be thinking...

Has Wes overreacted to a set of election results?

Can't it be better?

Can't you work with this?

If I honestly thought we could, I'd still be in there, loving life, loving my job.

He's not capable.

No, I've lost confidence.